DISH Network & Univision Communications-Televisa Joint Venture TuTv.

EchoStar Communications Corporation and its DISH Network™ and TuTv, a Univision Communications Inc. (NYSE:UVN) and Grupo Televisa, S.A. joint venture, announce an agreement that will add three TuTv channels to Dish Network’s Spanish-language programming packages. Movie channels, De Película and De Película Clásico, and music and lifestyle channel, Telehit, will make their U.S. debuts through inclusion in all three DISH Latino packages on May 29 at no additional charge for new and existing DISH Network customers.

De Película is the leading Spanish-language movie channel in Latin America and Mexico, offering 24-hours-a-day, commercial-free drama, romance, comedy, action and family movies. De Película Clásico is a 24-hours-a-day classic movie channel, incorporating movies from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s which represents the “Golden Era” of Mexican film making. Telehit is a lifestyle and music channel in Latin America and Europe serving young adults. This 24-hours-a-day channel features the most popular pop, rock and alternative music videos in Spanish and English, as well as concerts, celebrity interviews and music news.

DISH Network offers the largest basic subscription package exclusively delivering Spanish-programming channels and at the lowest price in the nation. With these three channels, as well as the addition of TeleFutura and Univision West (announced today in a separate news release), DISH Network now delivers 29 Spanish-language channels as part of its three programming packages, DISH Latino, DISH Latino Dos and DISH Latino Max. The DISH Latino basic subscription package is available for less than $22 per month.

“DISH Network offers consumers more Spanish-language channels in a basic TV package than anyone else and at the lowest price,” said Michael Schwimmer, DISH Network’s senior vice president of Programming. “We’re proud of our new relationship with TuTv and how it bolsters our DISH Latino offering.”

“This is a terrific development for the TuTv Networks and Spanish-language television viewers throughout the country,” said Mark Feldman, President and CEO of TuTv. “DISH Network provides the best platform for a U.S. launch of the TuTv networks. The fast-growing Hispanic audience, which is already familiar with Televisa’s channels from their wide distribution throughout Latin America, now will have access in the U.S. to our unparalleled selection of Spanish-language movies, music and entertainment programming.”